Deputies: Corning woman stabs husband in argument over cat

CORNING — Tehama County sheriff's deputies said they arrested a 55-year-old Corning woman early Sunday on suspicion that she tried to stab her husband to death during an argument over a cat.

Deputies just before 1 a.m. went to a home on McClane Avenue in Corning after Patrick Joseph O'Connor, 46, reported his wife Mary attacked him.

Patrick O'Connor reported his wife stabbed him with a folding pocket knife several times in the neck and arm during an argument over the cat. Deputies said the knife nicked his carotid artery, a main blood vessel that carries blood to the head and neck.

Patrick O'Connor ran from the home and was later found by Corning police, deputies said. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital while Mary O'Connor was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.